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8/23/17

It is quite amazing that Karl Marx's
Capital has survived and been continuously in print for the past century
and a half. After all, this big, unwieldy book (more than 2000 pages of
small print in three fat volumes) still has sections that are evidently
incomplete. Even in the best translations, the writing is dense and
difficult, constantly veering off into tangential points and pedantic
debates with now unknown writers. The ideas are complex and cannot be
understood quickly. In any case, the book aims to describe economic and
social reality in 19th-century northwestern Europe - surely a context very different from our own.